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Originally Posted by artdutra04
That mill would work for anything up to about the size of a gearbox plate.
If I only had a few thousand dollars to put into a milling machine for a FRC team, I'd be much more likely to look into a good-condition, used manual milling machine before I would get a mini-CNC mill. CNC mills are nice if you already have manual equipment, as there are a lot of occasions where it takes longer to make "easy" parts via CNC than it does to just make them on a manual milling machine.
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So say buy a cheap used manual mill and then a mini-CNC mill or is that just over kill. How offend are you going to mill something bigger then the CNC mill could do on a standard FRC bot? From what I could see on 303 robot this year we could make everything on the mini-CNC mill.